FC5 will not USB drives

Freehand · 05-15-2006, 11:06 AM

Hello,

I have a working installation of FC5 on a Dell Optiplex GX-240. The system works great, except it will not see or mount any USB HDDs. I am referring to the little flash-drives and not the bigger ATA HDDs in a case. I was able to get one drive t omount by creating a temporary directory, and using the mnt command. FC4, and CentOS 4.2 will automatically mount these devices when attached. How can I add this capability ot FC5?

Thanx

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donv2 · 05-15-2006, 07:25 PM

If I remember correctly, it worked for me fine right out of the box with FC5. I believe I later broke it by something done when installing the Linuxant free modem driver for my HSF modem.

Freehand · 05-16-2006, 11:34 AM

Here is what I did to manually mount the device

1. run "dmesg" to find out what name the device has been given, ex: "sdaA".

2. Create an empty directory for mounting the device; "mkdir /mnt/cruzer"

3. Mount it, "mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/cruzer".

tuntsfaah · 05-24-2006, 12:50 PM

How do I go about having FC5 mount my USB Hard Drive automatically at boot, as if it were vfat? I have it configured in fstab file, but it won't mount ext3 (id 83 or 8e). I formatted the drive with ext3 id 8e, and I want all users to be able to have r/w access.

How do I go about doing this?